[Freegis-list] [ANNOUNCE]: English GDF Hannover GRASS GIS tutorial, Version 1.2 released

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Ben,

Am 12. Sep 2005 um 10:32:12 schrieb Ben Discoe:
> > From: Stephan Holl

> > GDF Hannover is proud to present the English translation of 
> > the well-known German GRASS GIS Tutorial version 1.2.

> > The document focuses on [..] the 
> > new graphical user interface (GUI).

> Please correct me if i'm wrong, but the "GRASS GIS 6.0 Tutorial" contains a
> hundred pages of background material on low-level GIS capabilities of the
> backend, and one (1) page about the program's interface.  Unless i'm missing
> something, how can the document be said to "[focus] on the new graphical
> user interface (GUI)"?

You are missing the whole section 18 which is a few more pages.
I think that the announcement meant 
that the update of the document had a focus on those new section.

> Can anyone tell me if there are plans to actually provide documentation or a
> tutorial for GRASS?

Note that many GIS users really like the command line interface,
because it is much simple to teach, learn and combine for powerful
applications that involve repetitive tasks.

There is quite some material available from the GRASS project itself,
I admitt it varies in quality: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/tutorials.php

Just more people are needed. If you like what GDF does you can support 
them by ordering a printed copy of the Tutorial or contract them.
So many people pay for proprietary software offerings,
we need to get some money into the commercial Free Software business.
This way we can employ more people to write even better tutorial materials.
(Disclosure: My company Intevation also earns money with Free GIS software.)

Best,
	Bernhard

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